December 23, 2021 — Every presidential administration starts from zero on a whitehouse.gov website, meaning a fresh launch. As in starting over: not a migration or revamp of an existing site!

This talk shares some of the thinking from the implementation of Biden/Harris whitehouse.gov (2020-2021) and provides insight on how the block editor answered the need for staff to work quickly and intuitively.

December 22, 2021 — This lightning talk offers suggestions for how e-commerce site owners can “Woo” customers to increase sales.

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December 18, 2021 — This talk advocates making friends with customers and connecting with the WordPress community, as a key strategy for growth, providing better support, and creating a clearer product roadmap.

December 16, 2021 — This talk looks towards the horizon of modern website development.

Learn more about core WordPress tooling and how blocks, patterns and theme.json interplay with the new Full Site Editing experience.

December 15, 2021 — Learn more about building custom Gutenberg blocks.

How to even begin? What could you create? What tools to use?

For a developer who hasn’t spent much time with JavaScript beyond tweaking a few jQuery scripts, approaching Gutenberg development can feel like an impenetrable fortress. The barriers to entry are daunting, with tools like React, JSX, Node.js, npm, and webpack evolving faster than ever.

Navigate this maze of technologies and understand the essentials for starting Gutenberg development.

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December 15, 2021 — Livestreamed from New York City, State of the Word is the annual keynote address delivered by the WordPress project’s co-founder, Matt Mullenweg.

Join Matt as he provides a retrospective of 2021, discusses the latest trends he’s seeing, celebrates the community’s amazing wins, and explores the future. Expect to hear about a range of topics, from WordPress 5.9 and Openverse to Web3 and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Learn more at https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021/

December 15, 2021 — Matt Mullenweg takes questions from the audience after the State of the Word 2021. Livestreamed from New York City, State of the Word is the annual keynote address delivered by the WordPress project’s co-founder, Matt Mullenweg.

The questions included discussions about Gutenberg and its split licensing, bringing the next generation to WordPress, Virtual Reality, and supporting small web publishers, to name a few.

December 13, 2021 — This talk discusses how to advocate for contributing to Open Source projects. (Did you know that not everyone who works on open source projects is a developer?)

Smaller tasks help newer contributors gain confidence and gain experience, which, in turn, leads to more contributions.

Contributing to Open Source also helps contributors feel connected with their community. But how does one become a contributor?

Learn what we can do as a community to help foster new contributors and encourage those who are already contributing.

December 12, 2021 — Join the WordPress Training team in this talk to learn about upcoming changes to Learn WordPress. Find out how your support can make an impact.

December 11, 2021 — This talk shares experiences from the WordCamp Japan 2021 organizing effort as a way of illustrating the relationship of community building and communication.